Chapter 341: Rocket Research
Regarding the issue of the Air Force airfield, Major General Liu Yicheng also thought about it.
The field airfield in Shijiazhuang must be repaired, but the specific location of the airfield still needs to be moved slightly, and it is changed to the southeast direction of Huangjiayu in Houlu County, which is located between Longquan Temple and Tongye Town, and the entire airport can be arranged in the "northeast-southwest" manner, and it is difficult to see all the way even if the enemy planes attack.
Because from the air, Luquan Mountain (Baoqian Village), Yuxi Mountain (Shijiazhuang Zoo), Huangjiayu (Shuanglong Mountain), and Yunpan Mountain (three kilometers southeast of Jingcheng) just form a continuous arch moon of mountains, which can completely cover the entire Longquan Temple area and the future field airfield.
What's more, this place is only more than ten kilometers away from Shijiazhuang, five or six kilometers away from Luxian County, and there are mountains to rely on.
After the Air Force guarding Shijiazhuang was selected, it should be Guo Qixun's first brigade.
Brigade Commander Guo is not an honest man, and this time he said that he was sending troops to a field brigade, but he drew on the "advanced experience" of the advance regiment and organized the two standard brigades into two regiments, just under the brand of one brigade.
A standard field brigade in western Sichuan originally had seven integrated battalions, each with more than 800 people, and when it was reorganized into an infantry regiment, it directly governed three mechanized infantry battalions, an artillery battalion, a combat engineer battalion, and a regimental headquarters, a total of six battalion-level units, and the strength of the whole regiment was close to 5,000 people.
In addition to the brigade headquarters and two infantry regiments under its jurisdiction, the 1st Brigade in western Sichuan also has a number of directly administered units -- two tank battalions, a 155-mm heavy artillery battalion, and an antiaircraft artillery battalion, so the whole brigade has 17 battalion units and a total strength of nearly 14,000 people, which is larger than some second-class divisions of the Republic of China.
Fortunately, the air force units ready to be deployed in Shijiazhuang have only one fighter brigade, plus all kinds of ground crews, there are only eight or nine hundred people, so the total strength of the troops dispatched in western Sichuan is less than 15,000 people, although it is far stronger than the Japanese army's brigade units, but compared with the Japanese army's permanent divisions, it is still dwarfed, for example, the Japanese army's horse division has 28,000 people, and the pack horse division has 24,000 people.
The western Sichuan army has always been a wonder in the Chinese army.
They have long since departed from the "low-level tastes" and are becoming more and more like the US military in later generations, and the air force will be the first choice whenever there is a military operation; when the aerial reconnaissance is correct, the special forces will be sent to the predetermined combat area to conduct a detailed reconnaissance before receiving the arrival of the follow-up troops.
On October 3, the black wolf personally led the team to parachute into the area of Yunpan Mountain.
On the evening of October 3, Li Jiayu's 47th Army, from the area of Changzhi, Shanxi, was transported by the Zhengtai Railway and quietly marched towards Shijiazhuang.
Yan Xishan also knew the importance of this place, and also secretly provided a lot of convenience, even if the Xinkou front line needed material transportation, he gritted his teeth and let the army pass first, but he was still not at ease afterwards, and let Deng Xihou's department gradually move to Niangzi Pass - "Jingcheng is dangerous, and it must not be lost."
On October 5, Guo Qixun's 1st Brigade officially swore out of Sichuan in Guangyuan (included in the Western Sichuan Joint Defense Zone).
In order to prevent the Japanese from spying, the flag and number of the brigade were all changed to "Independent Mixed Brigade of the 47th Army", and the purpose of the northward march was declared to the outside world - "to join up with Li Jiayu's large army and support the Xinkou front line together."
Therefore, the scene of the oath-taking was relatively low-key, and only General Pan Wenhua came to Guangyuan to practice on behalf of Liu Xiang.
Liu Yicheng did not accompany the army in person, but went to meet von Blair and Messerschmidt, two professors, one is an agricultural expert and the other is an aircraft expert.
Professor Blair, agricultural research in western Sichuan has achieved initial results, the grain yield per mu in western Sichuan, increased by more than 50 percent, won the gratitude of the people in western Sichuan, he has now moved to Fucheng, Deyang, CD area, is studying the plain agricultural problems in Sichuan, and was formally commissioned by the Sichuan Provincial Government to prepare to build a new type of fertilizer production base in the Meishan area.
Major General Liu approached Professor Blair mainly to ask him to study the issue of "war rations."
After all, hundreds of thousands of officers and men of the Sichuan Army are fighting in other provinces, and they are always full and hungry, and it is not a way to go on in the long run, not to mention that they will have to fight for eight years, and once they get sick because of this, it will seriously affect their combat effectiveness.
Professor Blair couldn't have had it either.
After all, he was only an agricultural professor, not an "omniscient" god, but fortunately, among the more than a dozen agricultural experts who came with him, there were experts in nutrition, and through everyone's collective efforts and the experience of German soldiers in making military rations during World War I, he really came up with some solutions.
Combined with someone's "hearsay" and "foresight" in the 21st century, in the end, western Sichuan decided to set up a battlefield fast food research base in Fucheng and Guangyuan, and set up some water purification factories, fried noodle factories, canning factories, beef jerky factories, dehydrated vegetable factories, instant noodle factories, and so on.
Of course, it will take some time for it to be officially put into production and delivered to the army.
Professor Messerschmidt is Germany's leading aircraft expert, but he is also a rocket expert, and Liu Yicheng is looking for him this time to develop rockets.
In the air battle on the Songhu battlefield, Okuda Kihisaji's "box-shaped phalanx" made all the Chinese air forces present helpless; if it were not for Major General Liu's haste and wisdom, and it happened that there was also a group of Flying Bear medium-sized bombers present, there was an aerial bomb drop in the air, forming a forbidden area of death in the air, otherwise, the final result of the air battle would have been quite tragic.
Rockets can be used not only against Japanese aircraft groups, but also against Japanese ground forces.
Therefore, Liu Yicheng is dreaming, he wants to develop it, he himself is a liberal arts student, and ant robots and intelligent brains can only copy and copy, he is completely mentally retarded in terms of innovation, no way, the only military expert he can reach is Messerschmidt.
What's more, this guy's memory is very good, and I remember that the professor once told him that he wanted to pull him to develop a jet fighter together, as if this was what Hitler meant.
Compared with jet fighters, rockets are really pediatric, but unfortunately Liu Yicheng's relationship with the Soviet Red Army is average, and he really can't get an artifact like "Katyusha", otherwise overnight, he can let the Chinese army have rocket artillery, and now he has to ask German friends for help.
Messerschmitt smiled and listened to someone's argument in silence.
He easily told this guy the good news, with his professional knowledge, to study such a simple weapon, it is like a chef stir-frying, but this thing is of little significance, just like the artillery battle in Huaxia, it can only be used to scare people, because the accuracy is so poor.
And after launching, there is no telling where it will fly, and maybe by accident, it will fly back on its own, killing its own people.
"This-", Liu Yicheng was also dumbfounded.
He also suddenly remembered a past incident, in another time and space, when he was still about ten years old—the same age when he liked to go wild, and he also liked to tinker with some homemade muskets, homemade bombs, and homemade rockets.
Muskets and bombs are fine, but if the craftsmanship is not good, it is a big deal that they will not blow up, or blow up people's fingers to black and swollen, and it will be fine in a few days anyway.
Only small earthen rockets are really troublesome.
Once ignited, the rocket actually moved forward in a crooked serpentine shape, obviously aiming at an open field, but it ran into a haystack behind it, causing a fire, not to mention, and was beaten by his family afterwards.
At that time, he still felt that he was quite wronged, but when he grew up, he realized how lucky he was at that time, and if it was someone's house that was set on fire, it would really be over.
However, Messerschmitt is a German expert.
How did he become like a child, making a military rocket, but it became a suicide weapon, without a bit of professionalism, it was not logical at all, Liu Yicheng seemed to believe it or not, or not, "practice makes true knowledge", let Professor Schmidt make one or two first.
An expert is an expert.
In half a day, Messerschmidt made three rockets, all of which were almost as long as a meter.
The first one was relatively rudimentary and rough, with a body length of 1.06 meters, a diameter of 0.1 meters, and a 4.6-meter-long balance bar, and a test range of 1,900 meters.
The second one is more advanced, the length of the rocket body is 1.26 meters, the diameter is 0.12 meters, the tail is equipped with 3 inclined stable spiral plates, when the rocket is launched, due to the effect of aerodynamic force, the rocket itself continues to rotate, so as to achieve the effect of stable flight, the test range is about 4500 meters.
The third one is completely familiar to someone.
On the rocket body, there is not only a fixed flight tail, but also an inclined nozzle at the tail, the rocket relies on the gas sprayed from the inclined nozzle, so that the rocket rotates around the bullet shaft at high speed, produces a gyroscopic effect, so as to maintain the stability of the flight, the body length is 1.1 meters, the diameter is 0.14 meters, the test firing range is 6500 meters, the accuracy is indeed not high, and the bullet point deviation is 200 meters.
Liu Yicheng still doesn't believe in this evil.
He scanned the data of the three rockets one by one to the brain, and then repeated experiments in the virtual illusion, the results are indeed a bit worrying, the first two rockets, don't expect accuracy, after launching, can not fly back, what kind of "suicide attack", is already a great victory.
As for the third type, it can already be used in actual combat, the only disadvantage is that the spread of the projectile point is a bit too large, and it can indeed only be used for scary, and the effective killing of a single shell is limited.
By the way, the technology of the USSR should not have surpassed that of the Germans, and their "Katyusha" should not be much better.
And how did the Soviet rockets do it?
It seems that they also win by quantity, a rocket launcher can carry 24-48 rockets, if you concentrate five or six rocket vehicles and make a salvo, under the shroud of nearly 200 rockets, there is really no need to consider the problem of accuracy, it is just a bit wasteful.
Seeing Liu Yicheng stunned, Messerschmidt decided to explain a little.
"The first rocket, the famous Congreve rocket, was first born in 1805."
"Its creator was the British artillery colonel William Congree, who developed the first generation of practical rockets based on Indian rockets and ancient Chinese rockets, which were used in the anti-Napoleonic wars and the Second Opium War with China."
"The second rocket, which is an improved version of the Congreve rocket, was born in 1844 and is the second generation of rockets developed by the British inventor William Hale, whose range and accuracy have been greatly improved.
"The third rocket is the result of secret cooperation between German military experts and Soviet Russia in recent years, and the effect - you have also seen that the range may be increased again, but in terms of accuracy, it will further decline, unless it is launched in a concentrated manner, it can only scare the enemy."
"How so?"
Liu Yicheng was also a little excited.
It is no wonder that during World War II, the air forces of many countries were not equipped with it, and even the Soviet and Russian air forces were only used to fight the Japanese or bully the ground forces of the Germans, while the Luftwaffe only used it to disrupt the formation of the American bomber group, and the results were real.
Soon Major General Liu thought of another question, what about missiles in another time and space?
Also, in the late World War II, what happened to the V1 cruise missile and the V2 ballistic missile developed by Hitler?
If you guess correctly, those high-tech products should also originate from these rockets in front of you.
Well, that is, the general direction of the study, there is still no mistake.
"By the way, why don't any of these rockets use turbojet engines?"
"Turbojet engines?"
What is the situation of Messerschmidt being stupid and equipping rockets with turbojet engines?
Could it be that the end of the world is coming?
These rich people are willful.
But it's a good idea.
The German professor closed his eyes and pondered a little in his heart, not to mention, if the rocket is equipped with a turbojet engine, even if liquid fuel is used, the accuracy of the rocket will indeed rise several steps, and the dispersion of the bullet point will be further reduced, such as being controlled within a few tens of meters.